Barron's Tiernan Ray says Gleacher & Co.'s Brian Marshall told him that Apple Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook told him that Cook had denied all rumors that he would be taking Mark Hurd's spot as CEO of Hewlett-Packard. In related news, Jenny Slater told me that Katie Marston said that Josie Winters said that Cook is like, "so dreamy."

Tech blog Gizmodo has acquired the plans for Steve Jobs's soon-to-be-constructed house, which will replace the vintage building he fought tooth and nail to have torn down. And to think, Gizmodo only had to pay five grand to buy the blueprints from a guy who "found" them in a bar.

Speaking of buying things for inscrutable reasons, AOL has purchased tech blog TechCrunch and its attendant network of sites. I have to say, I'm always glad when two companies I don't care about consolidate--it's so much less overhead for me.